Greetings Fellow Travelers,
As Dianne M. Connelly writes, “All Sickness is Homesickness". Whether it is our grieving for our Motherlands or our tattered connection to Mother Earth. Whether we long to return to our creativity and vitality or to a feeling of comfort in our own skin. Whether we are yearning for peace from the insanity that is strangling our world or seeking to peer under the veil to the thin places that truly form and shape who we really are. This is our journey together.
I’ve been living and writing and working in the soup of it all for 25 years. My roots are in contemplative practice. My life is a weaving of how those practices have guided me to places, to people, projects, and wisdom.
The truth is I have been blessed with extraordinary teachers and influential people in my life. But our elders and wisdom keepers don’t share what they have to give us just for our own benefit. They are actually planting seeds in us hoping some of the seeds they plant will take root. That the wisdom will be watered and that flowers will grow. That we will become the carriers of those flowers and in turn, plant more seeds for the next ones to arrive.
You will hear from me about restoring ancestral traditions. You will hear from me about water and how restoring our traditions around water can awaken our ancient calling to tend the land and bring western trained minds back into authentic relationship with our earth (no more of that pesky cultural appropriation problem). You will hear about the practical ways water runs through solutions for environmental protection and reversing the trends of biodiversity loss, drought & flooding cycles and deforestation.
There will be dancing, songs for the Mother, and collaborations with other visionaries. There will be lots of resource sharing and lifting up of other voices, especially the women, on the pulse of Earth healing. (Cause let’s be honest, we need them.)
I will engage you with beauty, insight and poetry. I will challenge you to look at your own beliefs and see what’s true. I will invite you to make your words and deeds match. I will welcome you to be the fullest person you can be in this radical lifetime of transforming our family lines and inter-generational trauma in service to the Earth and future generations.
I will welcome you in this journey home.